Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cal Ripken, Jr.

Stubbornness usually is considered a negative; but I think that trait has been a positive for me.

Earl Monroe

Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

Luck? Sure. But only after long practice and only with the ability to think under pressure.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

You can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

Dick Fosbury

I was told over and over again that I would never be successful, that I was not going to be competitive and the technique was simply not going to work. All I could do was shrug and say "We'll just have to see".

Richie Benaud

From our broadcasting box you can't see any grass at all. It is simply a carpet of humanity.

Steffi Graf

You can have a certain arrogance, and I think that's fine, but what you should never lose is the respect for the others.

Michael Owen

If you only ever give 90% in training then you will only ever give 90% when it matters.

Jesse Ventura

Win if you can, lose if you must, but always cheat.

Chip Kidd

Yes, Garnett Grey was an Architect. Were a psychoanalyst to approach him from behind, tap his shoulder, and say 'Humanity,' Garrett'd spin and respond, without hesitation, 'Solvable'.

Chinua Achebe

We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.

Chinua Achebe

We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n'ani ji onwe ya: 'He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down.'

Edward Gibbon

History, in fact, is no more than a list of the crimes of humanity, human follies and accidents

Edward Gibbon

The peace of the Eastern church was invaded by a swarm of fanatics [monks], incapable of fear, or reason, or humanity; and the Imperial troops acknowledged, without shame, that they were much less apprehensive of an encounter with the fiercest Barbarians.

Edward Gibbon

Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.

Edward Gibbon

If we are more affected by the ruin of a palace than by the conflagration of a cottage, our humanity must have formed a very erroneous estimate of the miseries of human life.

David Icke

A group of reptilian humanoids, called the Babylonian Brotherhood, control humanity.

Astro Teller

Anything which is a huge problem for humanity we'll sign up for, if we can find a way to fix it.

Ray Lewis

We spoke out on the grass to a group of people, consoled them, let them know we understood this was a traumatic, life-changing situation. Some had tremendous reservations about relocating to a state they knew nothing about.

Robert Brown

We're still a youngish program. We're having to grassroots our tennis. We're laying the groundwork and being patient.

Ed Perlmutter

They are the heart and soul of their communities. It's grassroots politics at its best.

Carl Anderson

You don't grow much grass on anything labeled poor. It's very bad.

Mark Rodgers

There's a heavy, heavy grassroots component. It's happening on a nationwide basis.

Craig Littlepage

It?s a number of sports. Any of the sports that play on grass would be under consideration.

David Day

It's a great way to feel young again. I can't wait to actually get on the grass and start playing.

Shane Warne

There's a lot of thick green grass on it, and it's pretty hard.

Linda Heath

Readers like the grass to be browner on the other side of the fence, and the browner the better.